Comments on: State of the Poles – May 2012: Arctic Ice Extent Near Normal; Antarctic Ice Returning To Normal http://weatherdem.wordpress.com/2012/05/15/state-of-the-poles-may-2012-arctic-ice-extent-near-normal-antarctic-ice-returning-to-normal/ Bridging climate science, citizens, and policy Thu, 16 May 2013 14:44:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: State of Polar Sea Ice – April 2013: Arctic Sea Ice Decline and Antarctic Sea Ice Gain | Weatherdem's Weblog http://weatherdem.wordpress.com/2012/05/15/state-of-the-poles-may-2012-arctic-ice-extent-near-normal-antarctic-ice-returning-to-normal/#comment-7153 Thu, 16 May 2013 14:44:02 +0000 http://weatherdem.wordpress.com/?p=7261#comment-7153 […] Here are my State of Polar Sea Ice posts from March and February 2013. For further comparison, here is my State of Polar Sea Ice post from March 2012 and May 2012. […]

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]]> By: Martin Lack http://weatherdem.wordpress.com/2012/05/15/state-of-the-poles-may-2012-arctic-ice-extent-near-normal-antarctic-ice-returning-to-normal/#comment-3764 Tue, 15 May 2012 19:07:13 +0000 http://weatherdem.wordpress.com/?p=7261#comment-3764 Yes i had heard that about melting from underneath. Radar is able to measure sea ice thickness; which is the best indicator of health.

Thanks again for alerting me to the link between ozone hole and antipodean polar atmospheric stability!

]]> By: weatherdem http://weatherdem.wordpress.com/2012/05/15/state-of-the-poles-may-2012-arctic-ice-extent-near-normal-antarctic-ice-returning-to-normal/#comment-3762 Tue, 15 May 2012 19:00:55 +0000 http://weatherdem.wordpress.com/?p=7261#comment-3762 I most certainly will not call you stupid. :)
The link between the ozone hole and a cooler Antarctic isn’t an obvious one – I had to look into it a bit before I believed it. I consider it to be a non-intuitive fact that more people should know. Spread it far and wide!

There were recent journal papers discussing warmer sea water melting sea-based Antarctic glaciers from below (instead of warm temperatures melting them from above). As they melt, the land-based glaciers slide more quickly toward the ocean and then melt themselves – which leads to sea level rise.

]]> By: Martin Lack http://weatherdem.wordpress.com/2012/05/15/state-of-the-poles-may-2012-arctic-ice-extent-near-normal-antarctic-ice-returning-to-normal/#comment-3761 Tue, 15 May 2012 18:36:06 +0000 http://weatherdem.wordpress.com/?p=7261#comment-3761 Excellent stuff. Call me stupid if you must but, I had not made the intellectual link between the hole in the ozone layer and lack of global warming signal. Next time some “sceptic” tells me global warming is not happening – and cites the Antarctic as evidence – I will know what to say.

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